Bronies in Arms: Road to Hill 30

Foucarville Blockade

Foucarville, France

D-Day 1500

Baker-Familiar faces. Makes a place like this almost feel like home... almost. Sometimes I forget Wildarrow and Dare are two people. They showed up at Fort Luna together and no one has seen them apart since. We just started saying 'Wild-n-Dare' like it was one word. Even with the damn mis-drops they still managed to stay together.

After Mac drop Baker, Lionheart, Wildarrow and Dare off next to the town of Foucarville, they walked along the outskirt of the city when they found a dead parapony next to a house.

Few moments later after staring at the corpse, Dare said out loud when he crouch next to the body, "What do you suppose killed him?”

"Wasn't old age that for sure." Wildarrow suggested, resting his rifle over his shoulder.

"They would just leave him here. Didn't we take this town? “Dare asked, wondering about the town and the surrounding area.

Red looked around him before replying, "I think we have to assume for the time being that Foucarville isn't under our control."

"Red, you're ruining my good mood." Wildarrow exclaimed next to him with delight.

"What the plan Baker?" Red asked Baker who thought for a minute and said to his men, "If this town is not secure, then we have to check it out."

"But what if we find some jerries’’?" Dare asked, a sight of fear on his face, "Do we go in gun blazing or fall back and see what we can do from there?"

"It only a matter of time before the krauts could find out what going on and start launching some counterattacks right at us," says Red.

"We might do both if things start going from bad to worse," said Baker then he walk up toward the main road before adding, "Now let's move."

They reaches a corner and, when they around it, they could start hearing the town church bell ringing very close to where they`re at.

The town of Foucarville is not much of a strategic objective but it next to the main body of Exit 4. If they could secure this town, then the ground troops won't have any trouble moving in while their colleagues is doing their jobs by providing them a way inland, deeper into the Normanedy countryside and beyond.

At the far-end side of the road was a "T" intersection with two Germane rifle platoons in position waiting for Baker and his Base of Fire team to move up. Moments later, the road is alive with Germane firepower.

"Shit! What do we do now?" Wildarrow shouted above the roar of gunfire as they took covers behind houses, "I think it the best time to talk to us, Baker!"

Baker quickly look and scanned a truck that is on the middle of the road but provide an excellence firing position for his men to go to and fire back at the Germane platoons.

"Red!" Baker yelled as he tapped Red and pointed, "I want you to go behind that cover and lay down some fire on that position so I could flank them!"

"You got it!" Red nodded and waved at his two men to follow.

When they got into position and begin to lay down harassing fire at the enemies, Baker maneuvered around the house and cut down the German rifle platoon by firing into their rear.

After they form up, Baker's squad continue to head down the road when two more rifle platoon showed up and another firefight began. When they take out the Germanes, soon they were met by a machine gun team almost to the center of the town.

"Goddamn, they're everywhere!" Dare shouted soon after the Germane machine gun opened up on them from behind a sandbag emplacement on the middle of the road, "It seem like we'd pissed off the whole Germane Army and they're here trying to kill us!"

"More like they're trying to kill you Dare!" Wildarrow chuckled, ignoring the machine gun fire so he could get up and take a shot.

"I'm not the one who plugged a kraut who was trying to take a crap!" Dare snapped back when Wildarrow got back into cover.

Red rushed from behind a truck and got next to Baker who is taking cover behind a house. Machine gun bullets riddled the ground behind Red as he said to Baker, "Frost, what now? The whole street is filled with Germanes. That MG is playing hell with Arrow and Dare."

"Hold on." Baker replied by looking at the whole area around them. Surely the Germanes hadn't cover the back by now...

"You have to take them on." Baker finally said, devising a plan for them to get past the enemy defenses, "Tell your team to stay where they are and suppress them."

"Wait, you`re telling us to stay put?" Red exclaimed in an alarmed voice, "Frost, you know that rifle fire against a big ass machine gun is not a very good odd. Beside, that truck is going to break apart any minute!"

"Then pray to Celestia that it won't break apart." Baker smiled then run off to get around the house.

After Baker left, Red just stand there then went back to his team behind the truck but then discovered that half of their new cover is now a pile of splinters and debris, all thank to that machine gun fire on the road.

"Where the hell is Baker?" Arrow shouted at his team leader when he returned.

Red explained his two men what Baker's is doing and what they're supposed to do. When he finish, he added, "And yes, we still have to blind fire in order for this to work."

The hood of the truck was shot off with a pang when Dare was trying to shoot over it. Their cover is almost virtually destroyed. It quite amazing that is didn't catch fire and not due to explode for much of your concern.

Like Red, Arrow didn't like Baker's plan, even if it get him killed. "Are you kidding?" he began, "Can a shitty ass rifle bullet can take out a big ass machine gun that is going to tear us apart any minute?"

"Hey, how did a .45 blew up a Tiger tank?" Dare added, being sarcastic.

In response, Arrow only shook his head and said to him, "That Ranger shit." Before he could talk any further, Red interrupted him, "Are you going to help or are you going to be a dumb fuck who is going to get everyone killed. I'm almost out of ammo."

With just that, the Fire team continue to have a firefight that they know they will never win. Where the hell is Baker?

After leaving Red and the Fire Time behind to flank the machine gun position, Baker silently went around the house back porch and got next to a group of barrels that is about 5 feet behind the machine gun emplacement.

Without hesitation, Baker toss two fragmentation grenades over the barrels and it’s landed right inside the emplacement.

When they landed, one Germane soldiers quickly spotted the two grenades landed next to him so he shouted to his comrades next to him, "Granaten!” Taken by his word, his comrades spotted the grenades and got up to escape the kill zone, but only by be shot down by Red's and his Fire Team. Those who didn't got up to flee were taken out by the grenades itself.

After taking out the emplacement, Baker stepped out of cover and shouted into the air, "Regroup!" and wait for his team to join him. When they did, they were all, literally, covered in dust and pieces of woods because of taking cover behind the truck that were virtually almost destroyed by the machine gun devastating power.

Baker took one good look at them, shook his head and exclaimed, "It still amazing why you`ll still alive." He walked over to Red and bushed his shoulder off while Red muttered, "Go to hell, Frost."

Moments later, the squad advance forward, taking out small pockets of resistance here and there when suddenly, they could hear rumbling sound not far from them. They stopped and listen, trying to point out what it is. Is it a tank, a truck, a motorcycle, or worse, a tank? They all thought as they kept moving forward toward a church...

They reaches there without any incident when as they stepped into the church morgue, they were met with hail of Germanes fire from the two side of the church building.

As they took cover behind tombstones, Baker ordered Red to take his fire team and clear one side of the building while he clear out the other side.

Instead of following orders, this time Red started to question it. "How about I should come with you this time so I won't be with the two idiots over there who almost got me kill back in town."

"I hear that!" Arrow shouted from the other side of the cemetery as soon as Red finish his sentence.

Baker rejected Red's offer to assist him. "They`re you're ponies after all." Baker said, matter-of-factly then got up to change between positions while Red went back to his idiotic team who is having a brief firefight with Germanes soldiers ahead of them.

Red told them what Baker ordered him to do and lead them to take out the rest of the enemies around the church by using the Four F`s.

After the area is cleared, they regroup back to Baker at the back of the church next to the hedgerows that is outlining a road and a field next to it.

"Now what sir?" Dare asked his squad leader who is looking at the road and the field.

"Red?" Baker asked the corporal next to him after examining the area around him, "Do you think that Geramnes will launch counter-attack at us to retake this church?"

Behind them, Dare and Arrow is screwing around, tossing potato masher grenades they'd found at birds and pointing at every tombstones saying that where your daddy is.

"Knock that shit off and fall back it!" Red shouted at them angrily, which they scurried like naughty children, then focus back to Baker to answer his question, "I don't know. Do every church in every town has to be important to the Germanes. They're like Death."

"That not what I'm saying." said Baker then immediately turned toward the sound of an unmistakable noise of a Germanes convoy coming in from the field.

"Get to cover!" Baker shouted then ducked behind a hedgerow next to the road. He looked around then spotted a MG-42 emplacement that faces directly at the field and the road. This will provide them enough firepower to hold off at least a company of Germanes soldiers.

Baker manned the MG-42 while Red, Arrow and Dare position themselves along the hedgerow next to Baker's and waited for the nightmare to come.

Less than a minute later, as many as twenty to thirty Germanes soldiers start counterattacking Baker and his squad's location by climbing over the fence where Baker was facing and down the road where Baker's Base of Fire team was. In hindsight from the Germane perspective, that was not a perfectly well-planned execution. Baker and his squad cut them down instantly.

Seconds passed and soon a hail of mortar shells began bombarding. Thinking quickly, Baker orders his Base of Fire team to assault the two mortar teams that is on top of the slope down the road on their left. They went down there and swiftly, annihilated the first mortar crews when the second one, about 25 yards from where the first one is, tried to launched shells at the Fire Team.

Taking cover inside the sandbag, Arrow got an idea and shouted, "Hold up! I got an idea!"

He picked up a mortar round from a box next to him, armed the fuse, hit the bottom against the mortar base then quickly got up to toss it at the second mortar crew. The round hit they're side, which leaving them unscathed, but the explosion had buy enough time for Red and Dare to get up and fire onto the mortar crew, taking them out.

"Where the hell did you learn that Arrow?" Red asked after they completed they`re objective.

"Do you remember that time when we lost the mess hall back at training because an explosion wiped it out?"

"Yeah."

"Well, me and Dare were screwing around like always when we found this mortars lying around so thinking they're they were dud, we armed it and tossed it at Chef's kitchen."

"You sonofabitch. No wonder why we have no food for three days!"

"Hey!" Dare jumped in with a smile, "At least we don't have to eat zucchini salad again."

When they finish they're moment, they went back to Baker, who was impressed by Arrow's performance, and they all went across a slope next to a hedgerow that led them to another road next to the outskirts.

Not only when they got there but Mac and Stanzan were also there too, waiting for Baker and his squad on the other side of the fence to come by and join them.

When they got there, Mac was not only delighted but happy to see Baker back alive again.

"Well, Frost I got to says," says Mac, redirecting his helmet back to even out on his head, "We got here as soon as we could. We heard our guys were wiped out in a Germane counter-attack. Baker, I pegged you wrong. At first I thought you were a shy poetic young man. Turns out you're a shy poetic young man who kills everyone who gets in his way. That's a down right admirable quality."